Improve your soil, so I wrote an article on the subject. It is also a good time to make a compost pile ( or two) if you haven’t already… think of all those available leaves, garden refuse, grass clippings, Starbucks coffee grounds (just one more excuse to swing by and get your favorite latte)… oh, […]
Healthy Soil for Healthy Plants
If your dirt is less than ideal, don't despair. Learn to add good things to it to improve its tilth and nutrient value. Included are many methods, but composting is one of the best known.
Learn how to grow plants well by starting with the ground they grow in.
Tomato tip
I ran across this gardening tip for tomatoes: Tomato plants prefer acid soil. Adding used coffee grounds helps increase the acidity of the soil. That is great news since I recently followed up another tip that I reported on in the spring: Starbucks provides the gardener with free coffee grounds. Read all the Starbucks coffee […]
Scenic Nursery: Bedding Plant Planting
Scenic Nursery | Weblog: Bedding Plant Planting I always enjoy reading Patrick Rogers entries, and this one is now appropriate for Ohio gardens. We are still trying to put in our bedding plants…. between inundations. ‘Bedding plants’ is sort of an old fashioned term bringing on visions of Gertrude Jekyll, and her magnificent plans for […]
